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Your link needs to be edited - take out the break before "circles". |
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<later> - ahh, that's better. |
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Once the subway car accelerates, your own inner ear should tell you something's up, but that's already too late to help you to keep your balance, as the nearest pole recedes before your outstratched fingers, and you hurtle back onto the people behind you. |
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You need to be braced *before* sudden accelerations or decelerations, so you want some indicator that shows the driver's *intent*. (And yes, I do have a certain amount of experience on keeping and/or losing my balance on the subway.) |
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Hmm, I just have this intuition, and
maybe it's wrong, that if there were
something to keep your eye on that was
lagging a bit behind the movement of
the train, that it would make it easier to
ballance. |
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I was wondering if a Segway could help, but on thinking it through, I reasoned that the Segway would try to keep you in the same spot relative to the track. |
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Maybe a small metal track running down the middle of the floors of the cars with a small steel marble in each track. |
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I seem to recall listening for the sound of the motors. |
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A device could be rigged to tell the passengers not when the train was speeding up, but when the conductator was pulling the throttle. Or whatever he/she does to speed the thing up. |
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How about a subway car mannequin which is loosely attached to the floor and falls over, thus making you feel less embarrassed when you do, too? |
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